What is shockwave therapy?
Shockwave therapy or Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is an advanced and super effective treatment choice in orthopaedic and rehabilitation medicine. These powerful waves can be controlled in terms of depth and intensity to target an injured or diseased area. Also ESWT was used as early as the 1980’s to effectively break down kidney stones and is still used in hospitals around the world for such conditions. Now Shockwave therapy is used to cure damaged tissues, accelerate the healing process, and breakdown scar tissues and calcification
Benefits of Shockwave therapy:
- Faster pain relief
- Less downtime
- No drugs
- Clinical success rate of 90%
- Faster and most effective treatment
- Non-surgical solution to persistent problems
- Approved by NICE (NHS trusted National Institute of Clinical Excellence) and FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
Why use Osteofix for shockwave therapy?
We not only use Shockwave therapy to help reduce the pain; we use a combination of osteopathic techniques, deep muscle stimulation and joint manipulations to further aid the recovery.
Our machines are supplied through Venn healthcare and manufactured by Storz Medical in Switzerland.
Medical effects:
• Stimulates “Angiogenesis”, the formation of tiny new blood vessels. The more blood vessels, the more blood flows with nutrients, oxygen and repair materials to the injured area.
- Stimulate “Neurogenesis”, the formation of new nerve cells. Useful in some cases of damaged nerve tissues.
- Disintegration of calcification, fibrosis and scar tissues. This can free up muscle, joint, tendon movement and ultimately reduce pain.
- Regenerative effect, activates body’s own stem cells, stem cells travel to the injured area and regenerate into healthy tissues.
- Analgesic effect (taking the pain away!), by overstimulating of the nerve fibres blocks the existing pain.
- Bone healing, by stimulating osteoblasts (bone cells responsible for bone healing and bone production).
- Tendon healing, by stimulating healthy collagen via fibroblast cells which are responsible for the healing of connective tissues.
Conditions and injuries treated:
- Neck Pain (Myofascial pain syndromes)
- Shoulder Pain (Calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder, subacrominal pain syndrome)
- Back Pain (Myofascial pain syndromes, idiopathic lowerback pain and pseudoradicular syndromes, herniated disc)
- Elbow Pain (Lateral and medial epicondylitis)
- Hand Pain (Dupuytrens disease, De Quervain disease, trigger finger and Carpal tunnel syndrome)
- Hip Pain (Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome)
- Coccyx bone bruise or fracture
- Hamstring Pain (Hamstring tendinopathy, insertional)
- Knee Pain (Osteoarthritis, patella tip syndrome, ligament sprain)
- Peyronie’s Disease
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome ( shin splints)
- Achilles Pain (Achilles tendinopathy, insertional and mid body)
- Heel Pain (Plantarfasciopathy or Plantar fasciitis)
- Morton’s Neuroma
- Heel fat pad inflammation
- Stress fracture in foot
- Ankle ligament sprains & tears
- Gout in hands & toes
- Non-union bone fracture
- Raynaud’s disease
- Feet & hands Neuropathies
